About the Organization:
Village Enterprise is an innovative microenterprise development organization working in East Africa. Village Enterprise’s mission is to equip people living in extreme poverty with resources to create sustainable businesses. It provides business training, seed capital/start-up funds, and on-going mentoring to new entrepreneurs to start businesses.
About the Job:
Village Enterprise is looking for a Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)Fellowship to lead its field-level monitoring and evaluation activities, design and manage innovative pilot projects as well as current special projects in a highly dynamic team. S/he will also support East African staff to implement and improve the organization’s core program, supervise interns and regional managers, and monitor program implementation.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- M&E role:
- Manage and assess Village Enterprise business owner targeting (an ultra-poor targeting process);
- Design and lead special project evaluations, write reports for funders;
- Oversee and increase the quality and efficiency of core and special project monitoring;
- Manage relations with external evaluation partners for a planned impact evaluation;
- Supervise the training of staff and enumerators on data collection / interviewing, data entry, analysis, and other tasks as required;
- Provide oversight for microenterprise development Plan data collection and analysis.
- Operations role:
- Assist in the implementation, monitoring, and expansion of the Village Enterprise core program;
- Provide management oversight and leadership, in cooperation with the senior director of programs and operations, country directors, and field staff, in Kakamega in Kenya, Soroti and Hoima in Uganda;
- Promote a strong work ethic among the regional manager and business mentors;
- Train trainers, mentor other employees and build capacity in country offices;
- Act as a liaison between the field operations team and development team in the US.
Qualifications:
- Masters degree is required. Concentrations in Development or Agricultural Economics, International Development, Public Policy, Statistics or other applied social research strongly preferred;
- Previous experience in both quantitative and qualitative evaluation preferred;
- Ability to design and implement research based on randomized control trials, regression discontinuity, propensity score matching and other methods preferred Experience in a management/leadership;
- Experience living/working/traveling in a developing country or emerging economy;
- Experience in curriculum development
- Must be able to use Excel to analyze survey data, budgets and track basic finances; Ability to perform advanced data analysis with SATA or SPSS strongly preferred;
- Experience working effectively in a highly independent capacity – self-managing, taking ownership of goals, developing work plans and self-deadlines;
- Willingness to work in a diverse team via email, skype, and other internet based communications;
- Fluency in English required, Swahili is not required;
- Minimum commitment of 1 year.
Closing Date: 05 Jan 2013
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can send their resume and cover letter to Anne Olson and CC to Philip Arscott
Please mention « M&E Fellowship Application » in the subject line.
